Is Pantheon or WordPress.com more popular?

WordPress.com is used by more websites in our catalog: 4,448 use Pantheon and 9,121 use WordPress.com.

Does Pantheon or WordPress.com have higher-authority sites?

Pantheon sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Pantheon: 58, WordPress.com: 14).

Is Pantheon or WordPress.com growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Pantheon went from 0.64% to 0.50% of all tracked sites, while WordPress.com went from 1.1% to 1.0%. WordPress.com is gaining ground faster in our index.

How many sites use both Pantheon and WordPress.com?

2 websites in our catalog use both Pantheon and WordPress.com.

Where does this Pantheon vs WordPress.com data come from?

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.

Pantheon vs WordPress.com — Site Stats Database

Pantheon vs WordPress.com

A side-by-side comparison of two hosting & cdn providers, based on the 404,518 Hosting / CDN sites tracked by Site Stats Database.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Metric	Pantheon	WordPress.com
Websites	4,448	9,121
Market share	1.1%	2.3%
Share of top 10K sites	2.4%	0.19%

Rank	#16	#9

Median DR	58	14

Average DR	55	20

Median keywords	2,720	878

Median referring domains	1,470	198

Median domain age	24 yrs	9 yrs

Average domain age	22 yrs	11 yrs

Average monthly traffic	298,928	34,152

Combined monthly traffic	1,329,633,442	311,497,135

akc.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords655,094
Referring Domains78,973
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)125,727,029
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPantheon
stanford.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords1,198,840
Referring Domains511,286
Domain Age40 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)45,915,915
Traffic Trend
Technology
wa.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords1,323,378
Referring Domains154,980
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)32,128,393
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPantheon
ufc.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)81
Total Keywords103,879
Referring Domains28,384
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)18,875,616
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPantheon
commonsensemedia.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)86
Total Keywords540,278
Referring Domains62,510
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)18,370,573
Traffic Trend
Technology
ucdavis.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords710,300
Referring Domains156,512
Domain Age40 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)15,670,133
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPantheon
utexas.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords624,924
Referring Domains198,907
Domain Age40 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)15,445,020
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPantheon
yale.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords637,409
Referring Domains270,573
Domain Age39 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)14,257,045
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPantheon
unc.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords585,624
Referring Domains152,434
Domain Age40 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)13,538,316
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPantheon
nationalzoo.si.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords133,119
Referring Domains25,771
Domain Age34 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)13,246,938
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
akc.org	English	90	655,094	78,973	31 yrs	125,727,029		Pantheon

wordpress.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)95
Total Keywords11,936,997
Referring Domains4,665,334
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)51,379,435
Traffic Trend
TechnologyWordPress.com
rollingstone.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords1,594,859
Referring Domains282,640
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)20,854,417
Traffic Trend
Technology
billboard.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords1,234,871
Referring Domains203,759
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)19,997,204
Traffic Trend
Technology
tumblr.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords2,212,416
Referring Domains2,723,869
Domain Age20 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)18,894,907
Traffic Trend
TechnologyWordPress.com
sheknows.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)82
Total Keywords677,012
Referring Domains110,881
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)11,598,435
Traffic Trend
Technology
pagesix.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords481,504
Referring Domains111,038
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,804,201
Traffic Trend
TechnologyWordPress.com
thewanderbug.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)27
Total Keywords20,613
Referring Domains475
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,006,552
Traffic Trend
Technology
culturalfoodies.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)25
Total Keywords6,148
Referring Domains440
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,998,834
Traffic Trend
Technology
calculators.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)56
Total Keywords73,943
Referring Domains4,406
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,759,049
Traffic Trend
Technology
calmatters.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)81
Total Keywords101,926
Referring Domains29,106
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,585,637
Traffic Trend
Technology